• Since the start of his presidency, he has tried to crack down on those Americans 22, 000-25, 000 last year who travel to Cuba without permits.

    ECONOMIST: Large hopes of that forbidden island

  • If he is to crack down on prices at home, Mr Bush feels he must appease the drug firms by don't tell Mr Howard helping them to earn more profits abroad.

    ECONOMIST: Drug pricing

  • Charles Clarke, the home secretary, accused the Conservatives of flip-flopping over identity cards touted these days as a way to crack down on terrorists, among others and seeking to water down laws that would enhance national security.

    ECONOMIST: Politics

  • He loses a big, old eucalyptus or pine tree every couple of years, and the library which looks ancient but was built from scratch five years ago has a long crack down the middle of the floor.

    WSJ: The Most Important Garden Designer You've Never Heard Of

  • It also has a unit that does court- or regulat0r-appointed compliance monitoring of lending institutions a growing business as regulators crack down on mortgage servicers and get them to sign settlements that require continuing oversight by outside entities.

    FORBES: Mortgage-Audit Firm -- Surprise! -- Finds Lots of Errors in Foreclosures

  • NATO's mission, have taken what they knew to be a calculated risk by vowing to crack down harder on crime, racketeering and contraband among the Albanians as well as imposing their authority on recalcitrant Serbs in the north of Kosovo.

    ECONOMIST: Cracking down on crime in Kosovo

  • Connecticut on Thursday became the latest to crack down as the governor signed a measure effective immediately that adds more than 100 firearms to the state's assault weapons ban, creates a dangerous weapon offender registry and institutes eligibility rules for ammunition purchases.

    WSJ: Laws, rumors have ammo flying off store shelves

  • Marion Barry held the office for more than ten years before he was caught on video smoking crack and had to step down.

    ECONOMIST: The District of Columbia

  • About the size of a dollar bill, the mud covered the carpet and spanned the crack of the trapdoor that led down into the three-foot-high crawl space beneath the house.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Killer Weekend'

  • When you - you're crack climbing a thin crack, you stick your toes into the crack and then kind of wrench down on to stand up, and it's painful.

    NPR: Craig DeMartino: Winner in the Extremity Games

  • Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, involves drilling down and creating tiny explosions to crack the hard shale rocks to release the gas inside.

    BBC: Drilling for gas

  • As for the other incidents that have beset the type over the past few months -- a fan shaft failure on an engine, an oil leak, a windshield crack -- all can safely be put down to teething problems.

    CNN: How Boeing can bounce back from Dreamliner problems

  • We have a laugh, we have a crack but when it's time to get down to business we get down and train hard -and that's all down to Rob.

    BBC: Great Britain amateur boxers praise coach Rob McCracken

  • He was shouted down several times as he tried to encourage anyone with evidence of a crack conspiracy to submit the information to the LAPD, the CIA Inspector General or a local Congress person.

    CNN: Deutch confronts angry L.A. residents in town hall meeting

  • He was first elected in 1998 as a political aspirin to cure the hangover left behind by the infamous Marion Barry, who ran down the budget, cavorted in strip bars and was jailed for smoking crack (but still re-elected after his release).

    ECONOMIST: America's resurgent capital

  • Oil company manager Kaspars Skrabans said he was down at the beach by Jurmala with his family when he noticed that a crack had appeared in the ice extending from the shore out into the gulf.

    CNN: More than 220 rescued from ice floes off Latvian coast

  • Nick Easter and James Haskell both had a crack and when England recycled for a third time Goode chipped through and won the race to touch down.

    BBC: England 36-11 Italy

  • Mimicking that forced me down into a better fielding position and kept my view of the ball steady from the crack of the bat to the smack of the glove.

    WSJ: Pro Ball Baseball Clinic Weekend

  • In 2003 he heard the tale of a cadre of crack engineers who had quit Cray Research, the old supercomputer maker, to explore bringing powerful features down to the world of cheap servers.

    FORBES: The New Barbarians

  • The crack you put in the wall today becomes the gash tomorrow, which ultimately leads to the wall crumbling down.

    CNN: House Judiciary Committee hearing,

  • Military men have been expressing their scepticism that bombing alone will either destroy Mr Hussein's secret weaponry or drive him from power: memories remain of the month-long, round-the-clock bombing campaign in 1991 that caused Iraqis extreme pain both then and later it destroyed the electrical grid and shut down sewage control and other essential services but did not make Mr Hussein withdraw from Kuwait or crack his power.

    ECONOMIST: Mercy mission to Baghdad | The

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